The Hour That Was Not

The Hour That Was Not is a questline. The priests of Akatosh feel a wound in time under the Bay, and brass where there should be stone.

Before starting

Requirement	Value
Minimum level	12
Play mode	Online
Account	Registered account required
Quest giver	Prior Anselm Vey of the Order of the Hour
Steps	2

Take the line through its quest giver, a town notice board’s Help wanted option or the Quests tab. Later steps wait at least one game hour after the previous step; a failed later step returns after one game day. See Starting a questline.

Steps

Step	Quest	Objective
1	Brass at Dusk	Meet Prior Anselm Vey of the Order of the Hour at the temple named in his letter
2	The Orrery of Endings	Meet the Prior at his temple Choose which power of the Bay you will tell what you find in the Hour (Daggerfall, Sentinel Map, Wayrest Map, or another: Orsinium Map, the Underking, the Blades) Break an Hour: go down through an Abyss Dungeon, past the Orrery of Endings, and break the Brass Remnant Return to the Prior and tell the power you chose

Decisions and rewards

Step	Outcome	Named reward
The Orrery of Endings	You told Daggerfall's court what stands in the Hour. Its herald paid for the account, and asked whether the lion's stone turns.	Lysandus's Remembrance
The Orrery of Endings	You told Sentinel Map's court what stands in the Hour. Queen Akorithi's envoy will tell it as a prophecy of the sun.	Sunfall Scimitar
The Orrery of Endings	You told Wayrest Map's court what stands in the Hour. King Eadwyre's steward sealed your account in the archive.	Eadwyre's Ward
The Orrery of Endings	You told Orsinium Map's court what stands in the Hour. Gortwog's emissary stopped laughing at the stone with the tusk.	Tusk of the Sixth Stone
The Orrery of Endings	You told the Underking's agents what stands in the Hour. They paid in old coin; the Order of the Hour will remember it.	Numidian Heartplate
The Orrery of Endings	You told the Blades what stands in the Hour. They paid poorly, and the Emperor will read your account.	Akaviri Oath

Choose one of the offered gear pieces. Account titles and the Weir Key require the online completion conditions described in Questline rewards. These stories introduce their activities; they do not unlock access to them.

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